Natural Selection & Change Over Time

The struggle among living things to get the necessary amount of food, water, and shelter

• Species

• Organism

• Adaptation

• Competition

An inherited behavior or physical characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.

• Species

• Organism

• Adaptation

• Competition

A group of similar organisms that can mate and reproduce.

• Species

• Organism

• Adaptation

• Competition

A living thing

• Species

• Organism

• Adaptation

• Competition

The process by which an offspring receives genes from its parents.

• Inheritance

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Hypothesize

The process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms

• Inheritance

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Hypothesize

To propose a possible explanation to a question that can be investigated.

• Inheritance

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Hypothesize

A process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce than other members of the same species.

• Inheritance

• Evolution

• Natural Selection

• Hypothesize

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• Species

• Organism

• Fossil

• Competition

Developed the first scientific system for classifying and naming living things.

• Linnaeus

• Lamarck

• Lyell

• Anning